The defendants were Navy ship builders—General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, and Todd Pacific Shipyards—who moved for summary judgment on the ground that a Navy ship is not a product for which strict product liability applies and that the sophisticated user defense relieved them of liability. [read post]

Foremost has received hundreds of millions of dollars in loan commitments from a bank run by the Chinese government to help build ships that Foremost has purchased from government-owned shipyards there. [read post]